A letter to the real and genuine Pierce [sic] Dod, M.D. plainly exposing the low absurdity, or malice, of a late spurious pamphlet, falsely ascrib'd to that learned physician. With a full answer to the mistaken case of a natural small-pox, after taking it by inoculation / ... By Dod Pierce, M.S. [i.e. J. Kirkpatrick, etc. pseud.].
- James Kirkpatrick
- Date:
- 1746
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to the real and genuine Pierce [sic] Dod, M.D. plainly exposing the low absurdity, or malice, of a late spurious pamphlet, falsely ascrib'd to that learned physician. With a full answer to the mistaken case of a natural small-pox, after taking it by inoculation / ... By Dod Pierce, M.S. [i.e. J. Kirkpatrick, etc. pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 2 3 ] omitting thofe Liquors for an Hour or two, he prov’d light-headed, hot and iick, and became cool and eafy on returning to them. In fhort the Small Pox had made a perfedt Good-fellow of him, he found nothing like a Plair of the fame Dog. We are told indeed P. ii, that Dr..Bettenfon did every thing in¬ cumbent on a good and Jkilful Phyjician, previous to the terrible Appearances, that drove him to this extraordinary Regimen ; but we are not told, particularly, what he did, or omitted; whether he bled, vomited or open’d the Body; which, with an Account of the Species, or Degree of the Difeafe, might have given us fome further Light into this extraordinary Cafe, and poffibly have made us as knowing as Bettenfon and himfelf. Now fuppofing all this, however crudely related, to have been Fadt. I cannot fuppofe that any rational Phyfician wou’d ever dream of tranfcribing it into general Pradtice, as it feems Bettenfon did; but only fubditute it, in fome very Angular Cafe, indeed, where the mod approv’d Method and Medicines had palpably difagreed with the Patient, and conclude with Celfus, Prcejlat remedium Weeps quam nullum. But this it feems Dra 1 Bettenfon did P. 11, in two or three Cafes, without any finijler Events and when we are acquainted withfome Indances of its Failure* : pot a few I dare fay, we find Bettenfon and this](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078170x_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
